History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Annie Sharp, 32, was a British national who had been staying in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, but was returning home to the United Kingdom aboard Lusitania. She booked a third class ticket. When the Lusitania was sinking, she entered lifeboat 14, which was lowered successfully but soon filled with water and capsized repeatedly. Annie survived …
Ruth Wordsworth, 37, was returning to England aboard Lusitania with her brother Osmund to see their parents in Salisbury, England. Osmund was returning to England to enlist in the British Army. Both brother and sister survived the Lusitania sinking but did not know each other’s fate until they reunited in Ireland. She survived by clinging …
Muriel Thompson, 30, was a British subject and the youngest daughter of Nathan Curtis Thompson and Charlotte Disney of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Muriel had been visiting friends in Miami, Florida during the winter of 1914, where she stayed with Mrs. J.B. Patterson of 234 Thirteenth St. Muriel booked the 1 May 1915 voyage of the Lusitania …
Marian “May” Bird (1875 – 1975), 40, of Cheshire, England, was a British subject and stewardess who had served aboard Lusitania since the ship’s maiden voyage. She survived the sinking in lifeboat 15 with her friend, Fannie Morecroft. They were rescued by the trawler Wanderer (also known by its registration number Peel 11) and then transferred …
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